Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, is in a critical condition after a private jet crashed, killing four.

Nicole Richie's ex-fiancé, celebrity disc jockey Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein, was also critically injured. The two are in a stable condition in hospital with extensive burns.

Their Learjet crashed shortly after take-off just before midnight on Friday in South Carolina.August 29, 2006, Las Vegas, Paris Hilton Travis Barker Pure

Critical condition: Travis Barker, pictured with ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton two years ago, is in a burns unit in Georgia following Friday night's crash

Barker has been burned from the waist down, but he is expected to survive. DJ AM's face was severely burned and is being treated.

Barker's former mother-in-law, Gail Moakler, told the American magazine People that his ex-wife Shanna, with whom he has two young children, had rushed to be with him.

The wreckage of a Learjet that was carrying former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, Adam Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, and four others rests on an embankment along Highway 302, along the outskirts of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport

Horror crash: The wreckage of the Learjet on the embankment alongside Highway 302 in South Carolina

Mrs Moakler said: 'Our heart pours out. We're hoping he recovers. The family is rallying around him and saying our prayers.'

Father: Barker with his son Landon, four, and daughter Alabama, two, who have not been told of the crash

Happier times: Barker with his son Landon, four, and daughter Alabama, two, who have not been told of the crash

Eyewitness William Owens told local TV channel WIS-TV he was driving down Highway 302 when he said he saw a fireball go across the road.

'I didn't know what I had seen - it was maybe 800ft in front of me, but as I approached it closer though, I made out a fire. By then I was able to see the tail of the jet and I recognised it as a jet.

'It's in flames and the fuel is running across the road and I had to cross the fuel to get to the two guys that seemed to have been dumped on the highway.

'We turned to the jet to try and see if there was anything we could do, but immediately, there was nothing anyone could do.'

Nicole Richie and boyfriend DJ AM present the award for Television Episodic Comedy at the 15th annual Environmental Media Awards in Los Angeles October 19, 2005.

Shock: Nicole Richie's ex-fiance Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein is fighting for his life

Beth Frits, spokesperson for the Joseph M Still Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia, said: 'Both Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein are in critical but stable condition.

'Goldstein was airlifted here and Barker was brought by ground transportation. So they arrived separately. They have extensive burns.'

An FAA spokesperson said air traffic control saw sparks coming off the plane as it drove along the runway.

The plane went off the runway and crashed onto a nearby road.

The wreckage: Of the six onboard, only two survived

Airport director Mike Flack said the jet reportedly hit the fence during take-off, pieces of the plane broke off and the fuselage caught fire.

According to Lynne Douglas, a spokeswoman for the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, both Barker and Goldstein got out of the plane themselves before emergency services arrived.

The plane was bound for Van Nuys, California after Barker and Goldstein had played at a free T mobile concert in Columbia, South Carolina earlier that night with former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell and musician Gavin DeGraw.

Representatives for DeGraw and Farrell said their clients were not onboard the plane.

After leaving Blink-182, Barker formed another band +44 and starred alongside his ex-wife Shanna in a MTV reality show Meet The Barkers.

The couple, who divorced last year, are the parents of son Landon, 4, and daughter Alabama, 2.

Seriously injured: Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein (L) and Barker (R), pictured at the MTV Awards two weeks ago, were the only survivors of the plane crash

The youngsters have yet to be told about the incident. 'We're waiting a bit to see what God brings,' said their grandmother, Mrs Moakler.

She added: 'Shanna spoke to Travis last night. He was defiant after the accident and didn't want to be lifted in a helicopter, but rather an ambulance, so they had to knock him out.'

Goldstein dated Lionel Richie's daughter for several years and proposed to her on her birthday in 2004.

The couple called off their engagement in 2007 and Richie has since had a baby with Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.ed

insensitive bastards, alls i can think of is the horrific amount of pain the both of them are going through, real shitty deal.

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Had me thinking he crashed again and actually died this time around. fuck.

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